We meet every Sunday at 10am on the first Sunday of the month, and 10:30am on the remaining Sundays.
We meet in the Bethany Room at High Street
Methodist Church, Witney. Postcode is OX28 6HG.
Our children's group arrangements are currently on hold, as we have no children participating regularly at present, but with advance notice, we can always accommodate children and are happy to do so.

Monday, 12 February 2018

Minutes of February business meeting

WITNEY LOCAL QUAKER MEETING

Minutes of a Meeting for Worship for Business held on Sunday
4th February 2018 at 11.30, Bethany Room, Methodist Church, Witney.

9 Friends were present. &21.35 from Quaker Faith and Practice was read during our opening worship.

01/18. Arrangements
for Dennis Compton’s funeral.

This will take place on Wednesday 7th February at
South Oxford Crematorium, Garford, OX13 5PA at 12 noon.

We agree to fund £50 for the notice of Dennis’s death in
‘The Friend’.

02/18. Finance

Ruth Slade, our Treasurer, talked us through the financial
outturn for 2017 and the revised budget for 2018.

We note that our finances continue to be in good health and
we are where we expected to be. We have put a stop to the cheque to Base 33 for
£225. We have £1,000 earmarked for the Witney Homelessness Strategy group.

We approve the figures for the outturn for 2017. Copies of
the accounts are attached to the minutes.

03/18. Charney Manor
Away Day.

This will take place on Sunday 25th February from
2.30-7.30pm. Numbers are good and we have a total of 34 Friends attending from
Witney, Charlbury and Burford Meetings.

The full cost of the Day is £1,020 of which £500 has already been earmarked from
Sue Bower’s legacy.

We agree to fund the £520 shortfall from our training
budget.

04/18. Witney
Homeless Strategy.

Mahalla Mason updated us on this. There was a meeting on 30th
November. There is a small need in Witney. ‘Homes 4 All’ was present and was
passionate about a ‘Jumpstart’ bus for Oxfordshire. SWEP (severe weather
emergency protocol) was mentioned. Oxford churches provide space to sleep under
this scheme. There is a possibility of this happening in Witney.

There is to be a Churches Together in Witney meeting on 5th
February where a full report will be given by the Homelessness Strategy Group.
Mahalla will report back to us on this meeting.

There being no other business the meeting closed with
worship at 11.55.